[Farm93]

Where the hell is Marty with a plea to shut this thread down?

IMHO - Get all the athletes and coaches boosted and get all in the AD to properly use N95, KN95 and/or KF94 masks.  Then create the best possible AD bubble you can create.  The best bubble will not have fans in the stands or in the AD facilities, so I don't expect to be watching any indoor Stanford sports until August 2022.  If it is earlier than that great, but I am OK with the idea that the AD's bubble may not include me.

Watching the Our Stories on the WBB championship season, it was nice to see the team taking it seriously. I was horrified to watch Episode 3 of Sweet Life of WBB with Belibi and Jones. Little to no serious mask-wearing in freakin' TENNESSEE... 

What are you horrified about?  I was in Nashville for the Vandy game.  Happy to report that Covid does not even exist there . . .

When I watch the Sweet Life I begin to realize how and why college and pro teams keep getting players stuck in COVID protocols.   

Wearing a mask while travelling is not fun.  College athletes travel a lot, so I can only imagine how compliance likely fades over time on sports teams as they spend day after day in hotels, planes and buses.   The Sweet Life continues to confirm my fears about team travel.  :(

I pretty much imagined late December and January COVID realities for the Pac-12 after watching the first few episodes of the Sweet Life, so I worry where this could go from here for Stanford Athletics.

Sadly, I can see at least two undesirable COVID paths for Stanford teams in February and March.

#1 - Stanford's best teams have to do long transcontinental travel to compete in early rounds of post-season tournaments, and then discover before the championship weekend contests that they are unable to field a team because too many players are stuck in protocols after the first weekend of travel.
 
#2 - Omicron spreads with hospitalization rates continuing to get new COVID records each day and more SF Bay Area counties expand on Sonoma county's recently announced policy.   A return to tighter Bay Area policies would essentially destroy any chance for Stanford teams to be able to train, practice and compete.  

Hopefully that won't happen, but I would not bet against omicron given the USA's vaccination rate and rather pathetic compliance with logical mitigation efforts.

[Farm93]

Where the hell is Marty with a plea to shut this thread down?

IMHO - Get all the athletes and coaches boosted and get all in the AD to properly use N95, KN95 and/or KF94 masks.  Then create the best possible AD bubble you can create.  The best bubble will not have fans in the stands or in the AD facilities, so I don't expect to be watching any indoor Stanford sports until August 2022.  If it is earlier than that great, but I am OK with the idea that the AD's bubble may not include me.

Watching the Our Stories on the WBB championship season, it was nice to see the team taking it seriously. I was horrified to watch Episode 3 of Sweet Life of WBB with Belibi and Jones. Little to no serious mask-wearing in freakin' TENNESSEE... 

What are you horrified about?  I was in Nashville for the Vandy game.  Happy to report that Covid does not even exist there . . .

When I watch the Sweet Life I begin to realize how and why college and pro teams keep getting players stuck in COVID protocols.   

Wearing a mask while travelling is not fun.  College athletes travel a lot, so I can only imagine how compliance likely fades over time on sports teams as they spend day after day in hotels, planes and buses.   The Sweet Life continues to confirm my fears about team travel.  :(

I pretty much imagined late December and January COVID realities for the Pac-12 after watching the first few episodes of the Sweet Life, so I worry where this could go from here for Stanford Athletics.

Sadly, I can see at least two undesirable COVID paths for Stanford teams in February and March.

#1 - Stanford's best teams have to do long transcontinental travel to compete in early rounds of post-season tournaments, and then discover before the championship weekend contests that they are unable to field a team because too many players are stuck in protocols after the first weekend of travel.
 
#2 - Omicron spreads with hospitalization rates continuing to get new COVID records each day and more SF Bay Area counties expand on Sonoma county's recently announced policy.   A return to tighter Bay Area policies would essentially destroy any chance for Stanford teams to be able to train, practice and compete.  

Hopefully that won't happen, but I would not bet against omicron given the USA's vaccination rate and rather pathetic compliance with logical mitigation efforts.